Hold on to Summer a Little Longer with these Cool Flamingos

I don’t know how you are feeling about summer right now, but as I write this things have cooled down a little bit where I live, enough to make it bearable to be outside. If summer could always be like, I’d like it to hang around.

If you’re wishing you could hold onto that summer feeling a little longer, check out these super cool flamingos from Diana Watters Handmade on esty. (She has another pattern with a single flamingo if that’s they way you fly; both are $5.41 to download.)

I’d love to see these cuties on the side of a beach bag or even in a fun pink bathroom. They will definitely keep you thinking pink.

[Photo: Diana Watters via etsy.]

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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